interleukin

interleukin

Mixed Level-1 ICU

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About interleukin

interleukin has 14 years experience and specializes in Mixed Level-1 ICU.


Laughter, foreign travel, and helping out the underdog. Be Courageous...you may not end up with a thousand friends, but those who run beside you will be true.

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  1. Petitionary Prayer As A Way To Get Through A Rough Shift

    Listen.... when you're having a hectic day.... take a bathroom break, turn off the lights, take 10 slow deep breaths, wash your face, get back out there. There's nothing spiritual about taking a load off when things get hairy. The body can only do so...
  2. Petitionary Prayer As A Way To Get Through A Rough Shift

    "This made my day. I think that taking a minute to be introspective is fine, but I wouldn't call it 'prayer'. Praying is the act of asking an imaginary being to suspend the natural laws of the universe in such a way that you get what you want, whi...
  3. Petitionary Prayer As A Way To Get Through A Rough Shift

    Bingo!
  4. The Power Of Prayer in Healthcare

    I need some Zofran.
  5. The Power Of Prayer in Healthcare

    "I am so sorry I cannot share that link." Rather convenient.
  6. The Power Of Prayer in Healthcare

    "I am very curious over the amount of spirituality on display on this Web site, and I mean all over. I've never seen anything like it among any group of professionals, much less, among those practicing a science-based, evidence-based profession. I...
  7. The Power Of Prayer in Healthcare

    At risk of being barraged with hate mail, I offer the following; First , if prayer makes you, or someone else, feel better then by all means do it. After all, prayers can't hurt. But suggesting that praying for someone's recovery, from a remote locat...
  8. The Power Of Prayer in Healthcare

    "Studies have actually shown that those who pray are physically and emotionally healthier than those who do not" Studies? I think you meant to say, "Some people believe that those who pray..." There are no evidence-based studies that could make such...
  9. INR increasing...without anticoagulation?

    INRs take time to crest and fall even when a patient has stopped taking coumadin. It can also be affected by liver or clearance issues.
  10. The Immeasurable Fortitude of Mothers

    After returning from vacation, I was assigned to "Robert", a 24 year-old suffering from septic shock, multi-system organ failure and late-stage muscular dystrophy. He was maxed out on chemical and ventilatory support. In his room, the wasted young ma...
  11. "Well it doesn't matter, they're already on abx anyway"

    Check it, flush it, then get a bladder scan...if there ain't no urine, you ain't gonna get none. Stop messin' with it.
  12. "Nursing just happens to be the largest work force in a hospital." Really? How about nursing just happens to be the department that allows the hospital to be, well, a hospital. It provides the actual services, without which, the hospital simply cease...
  13. Your thoughts on being "written up".

    Nursing will be "revamped" when nurses regularly, and firmly, learn to say "no."
  14. Your thoughts on being "written up".

    "Conscientious Professionals" do not tolerate such catch-22 conditions. They ask: "Which do you prefer....all charting done or no overtime?" These days, they are often incompatible scenarios. If you, indeed, allow yourself to be turn...
  15. I believe the new nurses are transferring the anger they've developed when they suddenly realize their wonderful nursing school never really told them how tough things are for new nurses. You see, nursing school are businesses...in the business to m...